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You don't want people at the Halloween party making fun of you for not dressing in costume - but then you don't want some crazy getup cramping your sartorial style. What to do? Follow the lead of those who have walked this path before, including us: don a costume t-shirt.

This week's Derby asks you to make the most of a small canvas, to create the t-shirt whose imaginative power radiates outward to transform its wearer completely. Or just make something funny enough to get the costume Nazis off your back, whatever.

No insignias, logos, or specific design elements from pop culture. No Bat-symbol, no Star Trek patches. Superhero or space elements of your own creation would be fine.

Incidental text only. A nametag or logo is fine as one element of a larger design. "This Shirt Is My Pirate Costume" is not.

DJTweekNYC

Rough ball-point doodle, but I wanted to solidify this idea before anyone else had the same:

I want to capture the costume of the zombie office worker "Bob" from the Jonathan Coulton song "Re:Your Brains" one of my favorite songs of the season, or songs period. I just worry about being too gory for the Woot audience, but I'm gonna go forward with this idea.

TobiasAmaranth

I have an idea that isn't fox related! :P Hyper realistic bomb, possibly clockwork/steampunk style. The type where someone can open up their fancy vest and pretend to have a bomb strapped to themselves.

Woot's Men's Smalls: A speck on a shirt that might be art. Don't bother...

benjaminleebates

TobiasAmaranth wrote:I have an idea that isn't fox related! :P Hyper realistic bomb, possibly clockwork style. The type where someone can open up their fancy vest and pretend to have a bomb strapped to themselves.

DianaSprinkle

TobiasAmaranth wrote:I have an idea that isn't fox related! :P Hyper realistic bomb, possibly clockwork style. The type where someone can open up their fancy vest and pretend to have a bomb strapped to themselves.

DJTweekNYC

TobiasAmaranth wrote:I have an idea that isn't fox related! :P Hyper realistic bomb, possibly clockwork style. The type where someone can open up their fancy vest and pretend to have a bomb strapped to themselves.

mjc613

Hoping someone comes up with a shirt that a kid could use. Would save my sisters-in-law much anguish to just throw a shirt on a kid. Most ideas from the last derby were too complicated to explain to a child, unfortunately.

writermist

mjc613 wrote:Hoping someone comes up with a shirt that a kid could use. Would save my sisters-in-law much anguish to just throw a shirt on a kid. Most ideas from the last derby were too complicated to explain to a child, unfortunately.

you know what... you make a good point. but what kind of shirt would kids like besides superheroes?
*lightblub*
I GOT IT!!! XD

willeet

rglee129 wrote:Also, I've been playing with the idea of including a note, like this:

Thanks for any feedback!

I like it better without the note. As for other labels, what about Bass & Treble for the silver bars on each side of the chest piece there? Maybe move the middle rivets or whatever they are to different positions so it looks like they're moveable?

aerc712

I'd like to make it look like it's done in sharpie, something someone would throw together. Thus the white shirt.

I really like the idea of having a white shirt and making it look like someone just drew something in sharpie. There's just a whole lotta stuff going on in this design...perhaps focus in on one element. Some of the text stands out and seems to go against the drawn by Sharpie at the last minute vibe.

neuropsychosocial

This is - honest to goodness, with a great deal of respect for all of you - the only design posted so far that I "get" (and I laughed). Woot seems to avoid religious iconography - is the cross sufficiently removed from a religious context that the Rejectionator won't mind it? (I don't find it at all offensive, but I do find Tuesday afternoon visits from the Rejectionator offensive, so I thought I'd bring it up in advance.)

8. Maybe play with the text to make it look raised or engraved? Or do it all in dymo?? Looks a little too CGI at the moment, which I know it is, but it doesn't have to be

@Wileet and Orabiit- Thanks for the comments and thoughts. Note is officially out. And good call on bass and treble, Wileet. I'll probably put those in. Thanks!

@Icy13- Dang! thanks for the great crit. Like I said, the note is out and the bass/treble s most likely in. I've played with getting the text to look more naturally on the surface, but haven't found a way to do it yet without sacrificing legibility. I just downloaded a good DYMO font, so we'll see how that goes. I'll try to tweak alignment, too. Thanks again for taking the time to write such a thoughtful crit.

As for voices, Jones and Shatner stay. But the middle one... I don't like Prowse b/c it doesn't make sense as a voice option. Maybe a proxy or stunt double. Perhaps a doppelganger for public appearances... But for a voice I was thinking:

rglee129

@J5, I can def see that interpretation. Hopefully this spin on it will stand out since it's commentary about how un-scary DV is, not just a "look like Darth Vader" shirt (of which there others).

Between the hammy writing (Nooooooo!) and the irresponsible merchandising (my nephew has a stuffed Vader he used to sleep with!), they really made Vader pretty ridiculous, and more of a joke then the scary murderer he was way back in the day. That's the idea, anyways.

orabbit

rglee129 wrote:As for voices, Jones and Shatner stay. But the middle one... I don't like Prowse b/c it doesn't make sense as a voice option. Maybe a proxy or stunt double. Perhaps a doppelganger for public appearances... But for a voice I was thinking:

cdrewlow

rglee129 wrote:As for voices, Jones and Shatner stay. But the middle one... I don't like Prowse b/c it doesn't make sense as a voice option. Maybe a proxy or stunt double. Perhaps a doppelganger for public appearances... But for a voice I was thinking:

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